At long last, Apple has finally gotten around to updating its line of Retina MacBook Pros. Hardware bumps and price dips are certainly welcome, but how long are we going to have to wait around for Apple to release iMacs and MacBook Airs with Retina displays?

Intel wants to push Samsung and other vendors to dramatically cut the price of 4K panels and AIOs, but the company is targeting the wrong screen size for the effort. 24-inch panels are simply too small for 4x the resolution — and if you have to scale software upwards by 2-4x, you lose the advantages of the effect.

Ahead of its 2014 launch, Intel has started open-sourcing the Linux driver for Broadwell’s GPU. Broadwell is the 14nm die shrink of Intel’s Haswell microarchitecture, and while the CPU side of things isn’t expected to change much, Broadwell’s GPU looks like it will be a broad (!) and significant reworking of the Intel HD 5000-series (Iris) GPU found in Haswell.

Intel is finally pulling the paper off of Haswell — is the chip worth your consideration? At this point, “Maybe” is the best we can give — at least as far as GPU performance is concerned.

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